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Re: Unable to use network card with 2.4.19



El(On) Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:59:35 -0400
"Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@telocity.com> escribió(wrote):

> I've had on again/off again problems with my laptop and the 2.4.1[8,9] 
> kernel. I boot my laptop with the card (both a D-Link 660 and a 3Com 
> EtherLink III) inserted and the system sometimes comes up and sometimes 
> doesn't (I'm using DHCP). But, if I reboot my system and load the 
> 2.2.19 kernel, the network comes up immediately, no problem.
> 
> Any ideas? This same system works beautifully at home where I use a 
> D-Link DWL-650 wireless card. It comes up at home no problem.

Have your 2.4.X kernels got the CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) and CONFIG_FILTER
(Socket Filtering) enabled ?

The dhcpd README stats that those options are necessary.



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